Apple Names Srouji Chief Hardware Officer

<p><strong><span class&equals;"pagebody-location">CUPERTINO &&num;8212&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;strong> Apple has named executive Johny Srouji as its new chief hardware officer&comma; effective immediately&period; He fills the role held by John Ternus&comma; who will become CEO of Apple in September&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Srouji&comma; who most recently served as senior vice president of Hardware Technologies&comma; will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering&comma; which Ternus most recently oversaw&comma; as well as the hardware technologies organization&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Johny is one of the most talented people I have ever had the privilege to work with&comma;” said Apple CEO Tim Cook&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He has played a singular role in driving Apple’s silicon strategy&comma; and his influence has been felt deeply not just inside the company&comma; but across the industry&period; He has always led his organization with remarkable deftness and judgment&comma; and time and again&comma; his team has delivered breakthrough innovations that have transformed our products&period; We are incredibly fortunate to have him as Apple’s chief hardware officer&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Johny has been an incredible partner on the executive team&comma; and is going to be an extraordinary chief hardware officer&comma;” said incoming Apple CEO John Ternus&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I look forward to continuing to work closely with him in our new roles&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Srouji has built one of the world’s strongest and most innovative teams of silicon and technology engineers&comma; driving leading breakthroughs in custom chips and hardware technologies including Apple silicon&comma; batteries&comma; cameras&comma; storage controllers&comma; sensors&comma; displays&comma; cellular modems&comma; and other critical areas across Apple’s entire product line&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple’s hardware engineering team creates and builds all of Apple’s hardware products&comma; leading everything from product design to system engineering to reliability and durability testing&period; The team works closely with industrial design&comma; hardware technologies&comma; software engineering&comma; and operations to deliver the world’s most innovative products&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Srouji joined Apple in 2008 to lead development of A4&comma; the first Apple-designed system-on-a-chip&period; Prior to Apple&comma; Srouji held senior positions at Intel and IBM in the area of processor development and design&period; He earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from Technion&comma; Israel’s Institute of Technology&period;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;